All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you.

First for me was Final Fantasy XI. After wanting to puke all over FF10's retarded disapointment, I was about ready to play a completely different kind of FF game, and this game delivered on that note. It felt MASSIVE compared to any other game of any genre I had played at the time. I would sometimes just run around aimlessly, and every trip outside San'doria felt like an adventure. It wasn't until I got into the grind of things that the game started to wear off on me. When it because about number crunching, camping, and watching all my friends cheat and buy gil because of a stupid economy. I played it for 3 years, and got a DRK to 75. After that, it was WoW for me. The game just felt decades ahead of FFXI for me, in almost every possible way. But for some reason, I remember FFXI the most.

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"Life Ends so fast, so take your chance and make it last..."-Chuck Schuldiner(Death)

Yeah, Nexus was more a social thing for me. A buncha friends of mine played, so I got sucked in. I had one buddy big on UO back then, but I went with the majority. Nexus really soured my perception of MMORPGs.

FFXI was not only my first MMORPG, but it was what brought me out of the depression brought on by a crushing semester - girlfriend at the time, who was a super special soulmate kind of 3 years, broke up with me at the beginning of the semester, 2nd day of classes. Had to deal with being in multiple classes with her... same college major. Found out later she is engaged to marry a professor. Of my college major.